On Trump’s Nigerian ISIS strike on Christmas:
Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday. Soon after, it came crashing down, exploding on impact with the ground and sending the villagers fleeing in fear.
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Kagara did not realize it at the time, but what he was witnessing was part of a US strike that President Donald Trump would later refer to as a “Christmas present” for terrorists.
Not long after the impact in Jabo, Trump declared on Thursday that the US had carried out a “powerful and deadly strike” against ISIS militants in the region, who he accused of “targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!”
The pentagon said they “neutralized many ISIS militants. But the people in the vicinity are all confused:
While parts of Sokoto face challenges with banditry, kidnappings and attacks by armed groups including Lakurawa – which Nigeria classifies as a terrorist organization due to suspected affiliations with Islamic State – villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority.
“In Jabo, we see Christians as our brothers. We don’t have religious conflicts, so we weren’t expecting this,” he said.
Bashar Isah Jabo, a lawmaker representing Tambuwal in the state parliament, described the village to CNN as “a peaceful community” that has “no known history of ISIS, Lakurawa, or any other terrorist groups operating in the area.”
They all said they conducted “precision strikes.”
Here’s the record of the “peace president” in the first year of his term:
So far in 2025 there have been well over 500 U.S. bombings around the globe, according to ACLED figures.
Iran’s nuclear program was pummeled and Trump launched a large air and naval campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen. American forces have struck Venezuelan boats allegedly carrying drugs destined for the U.S., blowing them out of the water — part of a campaign to put pressure on President Nicolás Maduro, the socialist strongman that runs the South American country Trump calls a narco-state. Trump has provocatively said he’s not ruling out a war with Maduro.
While he previously claimed to have “defeated ISIS,” the radical Islamic group that has terrorized people in the Middle East and around the world for more than a decade, Trump’s been busy hitting them with American firepower in the closing days of the year as they show signs of a revival.
On Thursday, Trump launched airstrikes on what he called ISIS “terrorist scum” that he said had been brutalizing Christians in Nigeria.
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Days earlier, Trump had authorized strikes on Islamic State operatives in Syria — military action that one U.S. official said was “a large-scale” strike that hit 70 targets in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter.
In November, American forces hit ISIS targets in Somalia, too.
I suspect that 2026 is going to see a lot more of it. It’s pretty obvious that he will say that all this killing counts as peacemaking so that Nobel Peace Prize will will be a shoo-in. Anyone who ever believed that a man with his vengeful, hostile, cruel personality wasn’t destined to be a warmonger didn’t understand much about human nature.
Also, he’s fucking nuts.